posterIor, poster i our

& s. [Lat., compar. of poster us coming after, following, from post =after; Fr. postérieur. ] A. As adjective: I. Ordinary Language: 1. Coming or happening after; subsequent in time; later. "An admired writer, posterior to Milton." - Walpole : On Gardening. 2. Later in order of moving or proceeding; following or coming after. 3. Situated behind; hinder. (Opposed to ante rior .) axis. II. Botany ( of an axillary flower): Beneath the B. As subst.: [POSTERIORS]. A posterior i: [A POSTERIOR I]. posterior-side, s. Zool .: The part of the back of a shell which contains the ligament. It is usually the longer of the two. pos-tër-i-or-I-tě, subst . [Fr. postériorité .] The quality or state of being posterior or later in time. (Opposed to priority .) "The succe ive priority and posteriority of all tem porary things."-Cudworth: Intell . System , p. 647. pos-tër-i-õr-lý, adv . [Eng. posterior ; -ly.] In a posterior manner; later or subsequently, either in time or place; behind. "The posterior angle of the malar extends well poster i . orly."-Trans. Amer . Philos . Society , xiii. 205. pos-tër-i-õrş, s. pl. [POSTERIOR.] The hinder parts of an animal's body. "For expedition is the life of action, otherwise Time may show his bald occiput, and shake his posteriors at them in derision."- Howell : Letters , bk ii., let. 17. Used by Shakespeare, for the latter or later part. "The posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon." -Love's Labor's Lost , v. 1.